Beyond Six Billion: Forecasting the World's Population
Is rapid world population growth actually coming to an end? As population growth and its consequences have become front-page issues, projections of slowing growth from such institutions as the United Nations and the World Bank have been called into question.Beyond Six Billion asks what such projections really say, why they say it, whether they can be trusted, and whether they can be improved. Focusing on fertility as one key to accurate projections -- the committee examines the transition from high, constant fertility to low fertility levels and discusses whether developing countries will eventually attain the very low levels of births now ob…
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Weitere Autoren: Commission On Behavioral And Social Scie / Committee on Population
- ISBN: 978-0-309-06990-8
- EAN: 9780309069908
- Produktnummer: 1544927
- Verlag: Natl Academy Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
- Seitenangabe: 236 S.
- Masse: H23.8 cm x B16.0 cm x D2.2 cm 544 g
- Gewicht: 544
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